FULLERTON – Barbara Dunsheath, vice president of the North Orange County Community College District, and Ken Meehan, director of research at Fullerton College, will serve on the new statewide Commission on the Future formed by the Community College League of California.

Dunsheath, who represents the local board in the California Leadership Alliance for Students Success Initiative this year, said in a prepared statement she is passionate about community colleges because “they focus most directly on teaching and learning.”

The Community College League has cited a study by the Public Policy Institute of California that state employers will need 41 percent of the workforce to have college degrees by 2025.

However, the study indicates the current trend of graduates will provide only 34 percent.

The Commission on the Future will focus on model ways to help community college students enroll in and complete the educational and training programs to reach their goals.

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